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Mob is a Greek noise band founded in Athens by George and Dimitris. Their music is rough and brutal, with references to the harsh noise music scene of the 80s, exploring the limits of sound.

Heolstor is their second album release, recorded in the summer of 2014, using analog and handmade equipment. The CDr is accompanied by a 12 pages hand bounded booklet of 11 portraits and two sketches, typical example of George’s drawing.

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vital weekly

Nothing from Frans for ages then this strange burnt offering from Greece… a recording made using analogue and handmade equipment in Athens, a CDR within a strange booklet of hand drawings in ink of odd characters. Track one opens with what appears to be some analogue neo-experimentalism – which is confusing as I thought I was the noise guy @ Vital… but soon the piece becomes a fairly consistent Wall of – yes HNW. ‘Fairly’- as there is a definite dynamic of a filtering? so the track has some minimal differentiation. The piece ending as it began with feedback whine and white noise. Tracks 2 through 4 follow the same pattern- only less so… only if one imagines – you always need imagination in these reviews - the track as a sandwich with the HNW as the filling and the HN / Experimentalism.. feedback, oscillation loops (some long – others not so long) etc? as the bread – then the thicknesses vary as does the bread, white sliced, brown, wholemeal, Focaccia… Pumpernickel but unlikely its ever Lagana - a special kind of Greek azyme bread, baked only on Clean Monday, the first day of Lent… which would obviously inject far too much MEANING into both bread and Harsh Noise Wall for any JLIAT followers. But then my point is there is in the noise community (congregation!) far too many closet Lagana eaters…. And worshipers of the mighty ink blot, and the demonstration of the possibility of humans making anything symbolic of something else, you know - bread and wine. The danger, if there is one, is seeing in music a real, as blood and flesh of a God, and then consuming it…e.g. Prurient… so forgive them for they do not know what they are doing? [No reference or jokes were made about the economic situation current in Greece or were any animals harmed in writing this review] (Jliat)